DOOM: The Dark Ages Revelations Review: A Grounded Return to Hell

Scene from Doom

DOOM: The Dark Ages just got its first major expansion, and the question for anyone who finished the base game last year is simple. Is Revelations worth coming back for? The short answer is yes, if you liked the shield-and-melee combat the first time. If you did not, this will not change your mind. Revelations … Read more

Where Winds Meet Review: A Generous Free Wuxia World With Rough Edges

Where Winds Meet is one of the more ambitious free games you can download right now, and its arrival on Xbox with a new expansion makes this a fair moment to assess it. It is an open-world wuxia action RPG, meaning it draws on Chinese martial-arts fiction, with swordplay, roaming heroes, and a historical setting. … Read more

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 Review: The Best It Has Played, With Caveats

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The Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series defined a particular kind of early-2000s gaming — fast, musical, technically rewarding, and broadly accessible. The 2020 remake of Pro Skater 1 + 2, handled by Vicarious Visions, was received well enough that a follow-up felt inevitable. That follow-up arrived in July 2025, developed this time by Iron Galaxy … Read more

Smoothie Wars Board Game Review

Smoothie

Smoothie Wars sets players up as rival smoothie entrepreneurs competing on a tropical island across a simulated week of business. The premise sounds light, but the economic structure underneath it is genuine. For the right group, it works considerably better than the cheerful packaging suggests. The game was designed by UK entrepreneur Dr Thom Van … Read more

Daggerheart Review: Critical Role’s Own RPG System

Daggerheart Dice

Daggerheart, the original tabletop RPG from Critical Role’s publishing arm Darrington Press, released on May 20, 2025 and immediately sold out worldwide. Business Insider reported the launch sold out in under a week, with the company’s chief operating officer noting that a year’s expected supply lasted just two weeks. More than a year later, the … Read more

Wingspan Review: Still the Best Gateway Strategy Game?

Wingspan came out in 2019. It won the Kennerspiel des Jahres — the German award for complex hobby games — that year, sold 200,000 copies within twelve months, and spent the next several years being the game people pointed to when they wanted to explain what modern board gaming actually looks like to someone who … Read more

Resident Evil Requiem Review: The Best of Both Worlds, With a Catch

scene from Resident Evil

Resident Evil has spent three decades arguing with itself about what it wants to be. Survival horror or action game? Slow resource management or cinematic spectacle? Resident Evil Requiem, the ninth mainline entry in Capcom’s flagship series, released February 27 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch 2, and PC, is the most direct attempt yet … Read more